Proposal for technology architecture analysis

Technological methods changed in the development of car navigation systems as shown later. For such innovation, we should keep in mind the fact that technological issues change in the life cycle of technology or industry. Abernathy and Utterback pointed out that product innovations were essential in the early stage of new industry where many types of products came onto the market by using many types of technologies, but product design gradually shifted to a “dominant design,” and process innovation became main after the dominant design appeared. Foster said that technologies developed along an S curve, and a new type of technology was needed to break through the limit when old types of technology matured and came close to the limit of performance.